Elgin, Illinois, 1880 – Antique Map Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Elgin, Illinois, 1880 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Elgin, Kane Co., Illinois 1880
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Elgin, Illinois, 1880
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Elgin, on the Fox River in Kane County, Illinois, was a manufacturing town in 1880, and its best-known enterprise was the Elgin National Watch Company, founded in 1864, whose factory produced railroad-grade pocket watches sold across the country. The watch works earned the city its nickname, "Watch City," and drew skilled machinists and their families into a community that also relied on dairy processing at Gail Borden's condensed milk plant. Rail lines through town carried finished goods to Chicago, about 40 miles southeast, and brought in workers and freight. A state hospital for the insane, opened there in 1872, added a large public institution to local life. Residents in 1880 knew Elgin for its watches, its river mills, and its growing brick streets and churches.
| Created / published | 1880 |
|---|---|
| Creator | upham, a. b., shober & carqueville |
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,440 × 5,776 px · prints to 25 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Elgin, Kane Co., Illinois 1880 |
| Reference | IL-Elgin-1880 |
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